Environment & Communities

Our design for the Sydney Airport International Forecourt transforms the visitor arrival and departure experience via an immersive landscape that embodies the spirit of Sydney. The revitalised public space sets a new industry benchmark for a First Nations design for Australia’s most traversed public space.

Since opening in 2021, the West Bund has been attracting up to 40,000 visitors in a single day, becoming a truly must-visit riverfront destination in Shanghai, and one of the most beloved public spaces in the city.

Laak Boorndap, an immersive landscape planted entirely on an elevated deck will help to reshape Australia’s Melbourne Arts Precinct with one of the most richly layered planting designs of any public garden in the world.

Like a ​‘hide’ for observing bird life, our concept for this wetland museum delicately balances architecture and nature.

A huge opportunity across time and scale, the Aerotropolis master plan will shape sustainable urban form for this new city, and change the future of Western Sydney.

Xichong is one of China’s most beautiful coasts. But it’s also part of Shenzhen, the tech megacity whose rapid development has degraded Xichong’s biodiverse tropical landscape.

The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is a once-in-a-generation, city-shaping project that will redefine the Australian capital’s cultural offering.

Colma Creek Connector brings the community and experts together to imagine – and create – a brighter future for an urban waterway in South San Francisco, using storytelling to engage future custodians.

Before it was an industrial city, South San Francisco was a place people could walk the length of the creek to swim in the bay. A proposal by Hassell+ aims to make that possible again.

The masterplan for the Jiangdong New District in the Chinese tropical island of Hainan restores the coastal water network and preserves China’s largest mangrove forest.

San Francisco is one of the world’s most captivating waterfront cities. It also happens to be one of the most vulnerable to sea level rise.

The idea was simple. To bring the Croydon community back to its neglected high street.

This stadium parkland in Perth, Australia, is designed to ignite the imagination and connect kids with nature and indigenous culture.

Along with our partners, we’re creating a vital cultural hub for this remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory.

The concept is bold: To plant a forest of two million trees along the waterfront in China’s most populated city, and increase green space in the centre by 25%.

This design festival installation used interactive and immersive digital and lighting technologies to provide real-time data on London’s pollution.

Our idea for New York City’s ​‘Beyond the Centerline’ competition takes us to an untamed ribbon of land lost in time.

This authentic and immersive panda trail and habitat changes the way people perceive and engage with wildlife.

For International Day for Biological Diversity, we are proud to have collaborated with Government Architect NSW on Biodiversity in Place, a groundbreaking new framework aimed at enhancing urban biodiversity across the state of New South Wales, Australia.

A new restoration project in the industrial heartland of South San Francisco aims to regenerate and expand the tidal habitat for an endangered bird native to California.

In 1979, Hassell and Land Systems started designing ​‘Australia’s first fully-realised linear park’ along the River Torrens in Adelaide, South Australia. More than 40 years later, Adelaide’s residents tell us how it became - and has remained - one of the city’s best places.

We wouldn’t paint a neon moustache on the Mona Lisa. So why do we pave over beautiful and resilient natural systems?

We don’t know exactly what our lives, work and communities will look like post COVID-19. But we know some trends of recent years have accelerated with the global pandemic.

Hassell Principal Richard Mullane has been tapped to join a new program aimed at promoting smart, responsible development in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Designers have ​‘freaking superhero’ skills says architect Bryan Bell of the Public Interest Design Movement.

As the winner of the Shenzhen Longgang Blueway competition, our plan to revitalise a 24-kilometre stretch of riverfront will become a reality for one of the world’s most rapidly developing cities.

The Colma Creek Adaptation Planning report is now available as a public resource via the Bay Area Regional Collaborative.

Resilient South City continues to receive recognition from both local and international awards programs, including The Chicago Athenaeum and the American Planning Association California Chapter.

The first steps of planning and design for the new Yallock-Bulluk Marine and Coastal Park on the Bass Coast are underway.

Landscape Australia

A glance at any Australian town or city shows one of the world’s oldest continuous cultures is largely absent.

Communities in Australia and California share connected experiences as they face climate-related threats, especially fire.

Hassell is collaborating with the Heart Foundation on the Walk Wise active ageing review and content development project in partnership with the University of Western Australia.

Rethinking urban habitat in the age of climate emergency.

The valuable lessons we can take from fires, floods and pandemics.

The shortlist for the Sydney Stadia Precinct – Public Domain Design Competition has been revealed, with an Indigenous Australian design team led by Yerrabingin, with support from Hassell, being named among the four finalists.

Architecture AU

Resilient cities are more than just sustainable – their connected communities have the capacity to respond to stresses and shocks.

From pop-ups to playgrounds – temporary projects are as diverse as the communities they engage.

Today, across the world, waterfronts are as fundamental to cities as water is to life.

Panda Land Master Plan, China, and Collect and Connect: Resilient South City, San Francisco, both received Outstanding Awards of Excellence for Analysis and Planning.

The built environment is a serious contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. We want to develop new social, technological and policy tools to help change that fact.

Measuring the benefits of the urban forest – by speaking to people.

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